Peatlands, which contain about one-third of the global soil carbon stock, are important carbon sinks. Their net carbon uptake is equivalent to ~1% of human fossil fuel emissions or 3%–10% of the current net sink of natural terrestrial ecosystems. However, the carbon sink function … | Continue reading
Have you always liked the Suzuki Sidekick/Geo Tracker, but wished it was an EV? Well, VinFast's soon-to-be-available VF 3 may fill that niche for you. The automaker has also unveiled its VF Wild electric pickup truck concept.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: El … | Continue reading
At the MIT Blueprint Labs Preschool Research Convening, practitioners presented studies on early childhood education and discussed future directions. | Continue reading
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“I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.“Bjork. | Continue reading
Head below for the full list of young adult SFF titles heading your way in January! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher. Release dates are subject to change. January 2 Sky’s End — Marc … | Continue reading
You probably don't think about plant roots all that much—they're hidden underground after all. Yet they're continually changing the shape of the world. This process happens in your garden, where plants use invisible mechanisms for their never-ending growth. | Continue reading
Marvel Studios’ latest show, Echo, is unique in that the bulk of its story is isolated. After quickly explaining its place in the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, the show focuses on Maya Lopez, her family, her heritage, and, eventually, her “uncle” Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin. Rea … | Continue reading
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Swaths of the United States braced for more snow and punishingly low temperatures Wednesday as millions in the east dug out from a previous round of severe winter weather that left at least five people dead. | Continue reading
Antibiotic overuse can lead to antibiotic resistance, but classic antibiotic resistance might not completely explain why antibiotics sometimes fail. Sub-populations of bacteria called persister cells can survive in the presence of lethal doses of antibiotics for prolonged periods … | Continue reading
OpenAI launched its much-anticipated GPT Store on Wednesday, offering its customizable AI chatbots to ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, and Team users. The GPT Store is Sam Altman’s biggest consumer product launch since ChatGPT, and it aims to make AI more practical and accessible.Read m … | Continue reading
Before you hop on your next Zoom call, you might want to tailor your background in a very particular way, says a new study. Doing so could make everyone else on the call perceive you as being more competent – whether or not you really are.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, … | Continue reading
We are informed that the typical Gazan has no relationship with the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It is an accident that Hamas governs Gaza, which is otherwise populated by entirely peaceful humans. At the same time, anyone in Gaza who is ki … | Continue reading
Budget smartwatch maker Amazfit has unveiled the Helio Ring, a smart wearable that's designed to monitor the health metrics that athletes need to maximize performance.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, TechnologyTags: Health, Tracking, Monitoring, Sports, CES 2024 | Continue reading
Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed tombs containing mummy masks and a 'god of silence' statue at Saqqara. | Continue reading
The startup Cappella has developed an app that translates baby cries and informs parents what is wrong alongside helpful suggestions. | Continue reading
Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It's a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into the region about 5,000 years ago. | Continue reading
Disney Springs always has a lot to offer a foodie visiting Walt Disney World, and whether you prefer sweet or savory, and we have a bunch of news to share to kick off the new year. January 2024 brings Disney Springs foodie news of special events, limited-time menu items, monthly … | Continue reading
Skoltech researchers have explained why very weak friction obeys different laws than those governing regular friction as we know it from school physics. Among other unexpected and counterintuitive features, the alternative friction laws formulated by the team reveal why increasin … | Continue reading
From intensifying wildfires to record-breaking floods year on year, the effects of climate change have manifested in devastating outcomes on ecosystems that threaten species worldwide. One such ecosystem in peril is coral reefs, which play a major role in sustaining biodiversity … | Continue reading
The Withings BeamO is a handheld multiscope that takes temperature, reads oxygen levels, and listens to lungs and the heart. | Continue reading
Free charge carriers in perovskite solar cells likely have a special form of protection from recombination, researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have discovered by means of innovative photoluminescence measurements. | Continue reading
Immanuel Kant The philosophy of white blood cells: this is self, this in non-self. The starry sky of non-self, perfectly mirrored deep inside. Immanuel Kant, perfectly mirrored deep inside. And he knows nothing about it, he is only afraid of drafts. And he knows nothing about it, … | Continue reading
There’s nothing more human than Comment on this. | Continue reading
Every morning I wake up to messages from people on social media. Most are well-meaning. Many are kind. A few are awful. Some are bizarre. And some, tell me how to raise my son. And how I’m doing it wrong. They tell me what I should be doing, how I can do it better, and what I can … | Continue reading
The largest primate in our family tree went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, and its existence has been known to humankind for less than a century. Now, a team of researchers has reviewed the ancient records and devised a more specific extinction window for our huge fa … | Continue reading
Scientific research on how cats view us is mixed, but one thing is clear — they don't adore us the way dogs do. | Continue reading
The origin of the vertebrate skull is a topic of much debate among evolutionary biologists. Some believe that the vertebrate head has developed as a result of modification of the segmental elements of the trunk, such as the vertebrae and somites. On the other hand, others believe … | Continue reading
Source: CES. We’re only two days into CES 2024, and something occurred to me in the aftermath of ASUS’s packed presentation. We’re in a new golden age of gadgets, the likes of which we haven’t seen in many years. The world seems ready for something new after spending more than a … | Continue reading
mermaidenmystic:The Little Mermaid by Hoàng Lập (Solan) | Continue reading
It’s borderline unimaginable that it took this long, but finally, at long last, Luke Skywalker met his mother. Which is to say, Mark Hamill met Natalie Portman at the Golden Globes this year. We all get to share in this moment because Hamill posted about it on Twitter: Now I have … | Continue reading
Dynamite with a laser beam, guaranteed to blow your mind… in my humble opinion there is no character greater, no figure so interesting, as the classic sci-fi femme fatale. I’ve been obsessed with evil women from a formative age and it wasn’t long before I stopped reading about th … | Continue reading
Did you know that, according to a recent study, there are more than 300 ways to work flexibly? The list of possible flexible work practices used by an increasingly diverse and aging workforce has grown significantly since many people were forced to work from home during COVID loc … | Continue reading
We’re all ready to see just what Denis Villeneuve and his crew do with Dune: Part Two in a few months, but what if nearly four decades ago we’d had a chance to get a sequel to compare it to? David Lynch’s planned script for a sequel to his wild 1984 movie has been missing for yea … | Continue reading
Windows 10 users worldwide report problems installing Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday updates, getting 0x80070643 errors when attempting to install the KB5034441 security update for BitLocker. [...] | Continue reading
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from LMU, the University of Bath, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have analyzed changes in the use of language on social media in Ukraine before and during the Russian war of aggression. | Continue reading
New research suggests that the risk of Europeans developing diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's stems from ancient human migrations. | Continue reading
We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. The 1918 flu pandemic killed around 50 million people. Smallpox claimed 30% of those who caught it, and survivors were often scarred and blinded. More recently, we're all too familiar w … | Continue reading
Today I’m releasing an initial version of my latest tool, CurlyQ. It’s a work in progress, though should be immediately useful to those who need it. I need your input on where it goes next, what’s missing, and what you’d like to do with it that it can’t handle yet. Join me in the … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced the end of mainstream support for its Exchange Server 2019 on-premises mail server software on January 9, 2023. [...] | Continue reading
Climate scientists don't like surprises. It means our deep understanding of how the climate works isn't quite as complete as we need. But unfortunately, as climate change worsens, surprises and unprecedented events keep happening. | Continue reading
Scientists pieced together the history of a huge Pacific plateau and found a complicated story. | Continue reading
The ocean plays a crucial role in the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). The so-called marine biological carbon pump is an important research topic in this context. However, according to Dr. Ivy Frenger, climate researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, … | Continue reading
Our senior commerce editor recounts the gadgets and gear she’s purchased after working for the site for a couple of years. | Continue reading
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; In third grade, we were taught the "times tables," which is to say we were to memorize it up to 12 X 12, which was, as far as I was concerned at the time, the end of multiplication. I managed to demonstrate to my teacher tha … | Continue reading